Apidays Singapore 2024 - Connecting Product and Engineering Teams with Testing API by Tatiana Shepeleva, StashAway

Connecting Product and Engineering Teams with Testing API
Tatiana Shepeleva, Staff QA Engineer - StashAway

Apidays Singapore 2024: Connecting Customers, Business and Technology (April 17 & 18, 2024)

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1. Connecting product and engineering team with testing API 18 April 2024 Tatiana Shepeleva, Staff Engineer, StashAway
3. Plan Design Develop Test Release How development goes?
4. Plan Design Develop Test Release When is product team involved?
5. Plan Design Develop Test Release When is product team involved?
6. Plan Design Develop Test Release When is product team involved? ???
7. Tatiana Shepeleva Worked as a QA engineer for more than 10 years Where to find me: Linkedin: tatiana-shepeleva Email: tatiana@stashaway.com Staff Engineer at StashAway
8. Rachel, Product Manager
9. Rachel, Product Manager Amanda, Software Engineer
10. Rachel, Product Manager Amanda, Software Engineer I’m done!
11. Manual Testing Setup • Prepare the testing environment • Prepare the right versions of applications • Prepare the test cases • Prepare the test users/data
12. Manual Testing Setup • Prepare the testing environment • Prepare the right versions of applications • Prepare the test cases • Prepare the test users/data And many more
13. Manual Testing Setup • Prepare the testing environment • Prepare the right versions of applications • Prepare the test cases • Prepare the test users/data And so on…
14. Manual Testing Setup • Prepare the testing environment • Prepare the right versions of applications • Prepare the test cases • Prepare the test users/data ???
15. Rachel, Product Manager Amanda, Software Engineer Need a test account
16. Why to ask Engineering? • Create a new account and set it in the right state • call internal API endpoints • Find an account among existing accounts on the test environment • SQL queries
17. API - gateway portfolios portfolios DB accounts accounts DB auth auth DB securities securities DB trading trading DB
18. Rachel, Product Manager Amanda, Software Engineer This one!
19. Rachel, Product Manager Amanda, Software Engineer Oh, I need one more!
20. Rachel, Product Manager Amanda, Software Engineer I’m at lunch…
21. Rachel, Product Manager Amanda, Software Engineer Done!
22. Rachel, Product Manager Amanda, Software Engineer More!
23. Rachel, Product Manager Amanda, Software Engineer Done!
24. Rachel, Product Manager Amanda, Software Engineer More!
26. Rachel, Product Manager Amanda, Software Engineer …
28. Test Query API
29. What does Test Query do? • Has a product-friendly UI using all the terms product team is aware of • Flexible API • Randomly chooses an account • Shows aggregated info from multiple databases
33. How else to use Test Query? • Automated integration tests
34. What to think of • Use databases as a source of truth instead of internal APIs • A big pool of accounts to choose from • Performance
35. Thank you!